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Sites of Contact and Models of Change: Introduction
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 391-398, November 2025.This Special Issue of Transactions of the Philological Society grew out of a Symposium held in November 2023 at St John's College, Cambridge, in honour of our friend and colleague, Peter Matthews, who died on 7 April 2023. Both the Symposium and the Special Issue were commissioned by the Council of the Philological Society in his memory.
Sylvia Adamson, Nigel Vincent
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Cahiers d’Études Italiennes, 2016 Aby Warburg’s text entitled Fragments on Expression—a collection of more than four hundred aphorisms, tables and diagrams dated between 1888 and 1905—contains two explicit (although elliptic) references to André Jolles.
Giovanna Targia
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SAND, PLANTATION URBANISM AND THE EXTENDED POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF INFRASTRUCTURES IN INDIA
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 49, Issue 6, Page 1281-1301, November 2025.Abstract Recently, large parts of India and the global South have witnessed widespread sand extraction from rural sites for urban infrastructure projects, causing extensive environmental damage. Critical scholarship has theorized these sites as new extractive frontiers that facilitate the needs of green energy transitions and planetary urbanization. In
Siddharth Menon
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Educational Theory, Volume 75, Issue 5, Page 936-961, October 2025.Abstract In contemporary contexts of digitalization, proliferating media, and generative AI, various “life hacks” are regularly recommended to disconnect and resist distraction, ranging from meditation to getting back to nature to unplugging. This paper traces contemporary concerns over “the attention crisis” into a longer signature — the frequently ...
Antti Saari, Bernadette M. Baker
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Writing About War in Byzantium
Revista de História das Ideias, 2009 Military literature is one of the fields in which cultural continuity between the Graeco-Roman world and Byzantium is more apparent. Indeed, an uninterrupted thread connects Aeneas the Tactician (ca.
Salvatore Cosentino
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Aristotle's Theoria in Contemplative Education
Educational Theory, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 439-459, June 2025.Abstract This essay analyzes Pierre Hadot's reading of Aristotelian theoria in order to evaluate theoria's relevancy for the contemporary field of Contemplative Education. It emphasizes the limited engagement with theoria against a backdrop of heightened attention to mindfulness‐based practices. The essay critiques the conflation of Plato and Aristotle'
Tomas de Rezende Rocha
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Humour, Transcendence, and Selfhood: An Essay on Lightness and Truth
Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 311-336, April 2025.Abstract This article is concerned with a ‘lightness that is as far as possible from triviality’. It argues, firstly, that a connection can be drawn between comic perception and pictures of reality that entail transcendence, understood as an otherness at the heart of things that may be indirectly glimpsed but never fully grasped as the object of fixed ...
Simon Ravenscroft
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Color analysis of ancient Egyptian paintings and its applications in modern digital visualization
Color Research &Application, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 4-24, January/February 2025.Abstract This study aims to identify the color preferences of ancient Egyptian paintings and their cultural and historical reasons through color analysis, and consequently introduce a color collection of ancient Egyptian painting colors for color matching of modern digital images.
Qiaoling Zeng
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Paul's collection in light of motivations and mechanisms for aid to the poor in the first-century world [PDF]
, 2006 In the first-century world, discussion concerning one's money and what to do with it constituted delicate ground on which to tread. Such a discussion normally would have been undertaken only between the most closely related of people who shared a similar
Watson, Deborah Elaine
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PLoS ONE, 2013 Due to the presence of the lake Quarun and to the particular nature of its irrigation system, it has been speculated that the Fayum, a large depression 80 kilometers south-west of modern Cairo, was exposed to the hazards of malaria in historic times ...
Albert Lalremruata +6 more
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